​The start of the 2026 college football season is fast approaching, but so are fantasy football drafts, when fans will pick the players they’ll ride or die with for the season. Historically, fantasy football is mostly reserved for the NFL, but why not have a little fun and see what it would look like using players at the college level?Today, we’ll take a trip through the Big Ten to build out a perfect fantasy football roster using one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one tight end, and one flex position. We also don’t acknowledge the standard scoring system around here, so points per reception (PPR) it is.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementDante Moore, Julian Sayin, Jayden Maiava and Josh Hoover were the first options that came to mind here. In fantasy football, the quarterback attributes that matter the most are touchdowns and rushing upside, which caused me to land on Moore with Maiava as a close second.Moore is going to be playing this season in a high-volume passing offense with plenty of reliable pass-catchers at his disposal, meaning he’ll likely be finding the end zone through the air a lot. He carried the ball 73 times last year, too, which would add a good amount of points to his weekly total. This will be his second season as Oregon’s starter following a breakout in 2025.Rutgers usually has some talent at the running back position, and Antwan Raymond will be the bell cow for the Scarlet Knights once again this season. What makes him stand out as our team’s RB1 isn’t just his sheer rushing volume, but also the pass-catching upside. Last season, he caught 18 passes for 225 yards and two touchdowns. His 244 carries last season were among the most in the Big Ten, and it’s a good bet he’ll stick with that workload.I initially considered bigger names like Bo Jackson and Jordan Marshall for this second running back spot, but I ultimately landed on a Big Ten newcomer in Wayne Knight. He had crazy usage at James Madison last season, getting 207 carries and 40 receptions for a total of 1,770 scrimmage yards and 10 touchdowns. He’ll be playing for the same coach, Bob Chesney, meaning he’ll still likely get plenty of opportunities. However, we’ll be taking a bit of a risk here since the competition he’ll be facing this season is stiffer than what he’s used to. The UCLA offense as a whole, though, has the chance to put up some big numbers in 2026.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThere’s no debate at all here, as Smith enters 2026 as the clear best wide receiver in the country. He finished the 2025 season with 87 receptions for 1,243 yards and 13 touchdowns, all figures that were in the top-10 nationally. There’s no reason to expect any of those figures to fall dramatically, but they might actually increase with Carnell Tate no longer in the picture and Sayin entering his second season as the starter. If we were doing a full draft, Smith might be the No. 1 overall pick.For the last two seaso